Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SOVIET JEWS It is comforting to note that Arthur Miller has at long last spoken out, however reluctantly, against at least one aspect of Soviet life-its open anti-Jewish excesses....
...Private investments in underdeveloped countries, moreover, are more or less an indirect and irresponsible form of colonialism...
...I certainly hope that your reportage of Soviet anti-Semitism receives wide currency, especially among the increasing number of "peaceniks" who in their near-hysteria over the terrors of the "big picture" have adopted a stance of moral relativism that allows them conveniently to forget the soundless but nevertheless fearful fate in Russia of a people that the world thought had had quite enough of death and despair...
...Let us imagine someone writing a play reflecting in dramatic form Hannah Arendt's theme of Eichmann in Jerusalem...
...New York City Charles Rubinstein In this era of spurious detente and psychological gibberings about the so-called U.S.Soviet "mirror image," allow me to congratulate The New Leader for its report on quasi-official anti-Semitism...
...But they were not the whole revolution, it is argued...
...Thus, everyone knows that Stalin was a lout and probably as evil an anti-Semite as Khrushchev...
...Kichko's...
...Perhaps after he examines carefully the Streicher-like cartoons which precede his article, "Obliterating the Jews," in the March 16 issue of The New Leader, his sense of outrage will lead him to examine other repressive aspects of Communism and, who knows, he may yet become sufficiently disenchanted with the Utopia of his youth and middle age to make his break with Soviet totalitarianism complete...
...There was some outcry over The Deputy, but it is still on Broadway...
...I myself find it difficult to understand why a student of foreign affairs would discount the role of military power in this manner...
...Ithaca, New York, 1960, pp...
...Hence the net withdrawal of investments from Latin America since the inception of the Alliance...
...There was indeed...
...will have its money back and local people will own and operate the industry with all the profits remaining in the country of origin...
...To refrain from using the weapons required for victory, or to stay on the defensive when an offensive is necessary, is to commit suicide on the installment plan in Southeast Asia...
...Private investors are timid and, as was brought out in the article, the present financial climate in the developing countries is not very inviting...
...But I am constantly appalled by those "peace enthusiasts" who, because of their disapproval of nuclear deterrence, claim to be the sole repositories of ethics and morality...
...If one is nostalgic for the '30s, I recommend these three critics for their dialectical exhibitions...
...Strangelove the other day and came home and read Simon's review of the film that I decided to bring together my compliments...
...Here is the way Marx put it: "Money is the zealous god of Israel who tolerates no other gods before him the real god of the Jews is the promissory note...
...Like most reasoning people, I am concerned with the dangers of the nuclear age and am willing to consider any rational approach to peace that will simultaneously reduce the dangers of war, maintain U.S...
...If the U.S...
...Could it ever be produced in this country...
...Stock not taken up by the employes could be offered to citizens of the country where the industry is located on the installment plan, also extended over a lengthy period of time...
...Indeed, if one reads the accounts of the soldiers in the field, one does not discover the spirit of defeatism that is to be found in some of our influential journals...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...It seems that no other national or religious group enjoys this kind of absolute immunity from criticism, however justified it might be...
...New York City Max Geltman I hope that Judaism Without Embellishment will soon be published in an English translation...
...He is remarkable because he keeps the movie before him when he writes, and he writes so well that I have never lost a friend in reading his entire column aloud...
...Ronald Sterne Wilkinson...
...must use those weapons that are best suited to destroy a revolutionary army in the countryside...
...For what purpose is the U.S...
...Washington, D. C. William Leavitt PRIVATE INVESTMENT The article "Private Investment vs...
...Almost to a man, I find them shockingly unconcerned with the degradations visited on Jews in Russia and the wide variety of repressions that are still a feature of Communist regimes throughout Europe...
...We have stuck to limited defensive measures, whereas wars are won by carrying the fight to the enemy's homeland...
...To this extent, at least, there is more freedom in Russia than in the United States, where any form of comment about the Jews other than praise is strictly forbidden-even if it should be a good deal more temperate than Mr...
...It seems that the time has come to try new methods, and with the funds at the disposal of the Alliance for Progress the following plan might be useful in Latin America: The U.S...
...This comicsatiric poem is analyzed by Moses Coit Tyler in his History of American Literature, 16071765 (ed...
...When the stock is paid for, the U.S...
...The major error made by the Jews is in thinking that by silencing any kind of criticism they thereby change the opinion in which they are held by the Gentile majority...
...Every time a person is cheated by a Jew, or shocked by his vulgarity, the fact that he cannot even voice his resentment only adds to the strength of his views about that race...
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...it is, on the contrary, only too much an unhappy part of it...
...Our industrialists might oppose such a plan out of fear that the development of industry in Latin America will be an unwelcome challenge...
...has not resorted to as yet, indicates Peking's fear that this is the best means for the free world to destroy the Communist satellite armies in Southeast Asia...
...The "can't win" thesis applied to South Vietnam is defeatism unworthy of the greatest power on the globe...
...Canada, a sophisticated industrial country, recently threatened a 33.3 per cent tax on the exporting of dividends...
...While agreeing wholeheartedly with the content of the pictures, I deplore their artistic quality...
...they began to use them, and use them still, on movies...
...Meanwhile, I would like to correct one misconception which he shares with many, if not most, liberal intellectuals: It is the notion that "Socialist tradition" is somehow antipathetic to anti-Semitism...
...Much more importantly, our Federal government has used its legal and military power in the defense of the rights of our minority...
...spending in excess of $50 billion a year for its armed forces if it lacks the capability of achieving victory in a small country in Southeast Asia...
...should build and equip factories in Latin America and supply experts to teach the Latin Americans how to manage and operate them...
...Charleston, S. C. Anthony Harrigan MOVIE CRITICS John Simon is a remarkable movie critic...
...Occasionally, they will counter with statements that we too have ethnic persecution...
...New York City Ian Hardcastle The New Leader has done a fine service in reproducing the vile illustrations of Russia's book against Judaism, a throwback to the dark ages of the Tzars and Hitler...
...But that would be short-sighted, for a healthy industrial atmosphere in Latin America will in the long run be more profitable to them than an impoverished sub-continent...
...There was Trotsky, for instance...
...Therefore I must drag in Pauline Kael, who writes for Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald of Esquire, and Manny Farber (including when you used him...
...L. J. Schenkel VICTORY IN VIETNAM In his review of Bernard Fall's The Two Vietnams (NL, February 17), Arthur I. Dommen states that the war in South Vietnam cannot be "won" in the sense that we in the West like to think of wars being won...
...Thus, from the early Utopian Socialists to Marx to Stalin to Trotsky to Khrushchev, it would seem that anti-Semitism (the Socialism of the stupid, according to Babel) is not only not alien to "Socialist tradition...
...The soldiers believe that by the use of armed helicopters they have taken a great stride toward countering the entire Mao Tse-tung theory and practice of revolutionary war in the countryside...
...My emphasis, M.G...
...security, and expand personal and economic freedom around the world...
...This crude propaganda campaign against an ageless religion and people should stir the conscience of humanity...
...The author of the poem was surely well acquainted with Maryland, although his identity has not been determined...
...Minneapolis, Minn...
...He finds the military factor in South Vietnam far less significant than the political factor...
...this plan would develop such a class...
...All three have in common the fact that in the '30s they were on the political left...
...I would expect, however, the American edition to be illustrated with better pictures than the Soviet one...
...When their political hopes collapsed, they no longer used their dialectical teeth on politics...
...We are told that most Latin American countries lack a middle class...
...Perhaps rather than Judaism Without Embellishment, the book should be titled "Communism Without Embellishment...
...that only "Polish Dukes, the Tsars and Hitler," to quote Miller, charged the Jew with being "obsessed with money, and will do anything to get hold of it, and that his religion is nothing but a front for his financial manipulations...
...If a mighty protest of indignation does not shake the USSR, then the Soviets can before long be expected to publish two more "profound books," entitled "Catholicism Without Embellishment" and "Protestantism Without Embellishment...
...East Lansing, Mich...
...As in Korea, what is required for victory is that we strike at Mao's privileged sanctuary in North Vietnam...
...Then it should organize Latin American corporations and require each employe to buy stock to be paid for by payroll deductions over a long period of time...
...Your brief outline of its contents indicates that Trofim Korneyevich Kichko has done his research well and presents an accurate picture of the Jewish character...
...The Communist campaign against chemical warfare, which the U.S...
...Here is how the organizer of the Red Army replied to a delegation of Jews who called on him during the early days of the revolution: "Go you home to your Jews and tell them I am not a Jew and I care nothing for the Jews and thenfate...
...Foreign Aid" by N. Pattabhi Raman in your March 16 issue throws light on the limping gait of the private investment sector of the Alliance for Progress...
...While I'm at it, I should like to say a word about our worst movie critics...
...James C. White SOT-WEED FACTOR In his review of John Barth's The SotWeed Factor ("The American Adam," NL, March 2), Stanley Edgar Hyman does not mention a most interesting fact-that the idea for the book was garnered from a poem by one calling himself "Ebenezer Cook, Gentleman," titled "The Sot-weed Factor" and published in London in 1708...
...And even in a developed country, where foreign investments may be invited, the alien control of the industries and the continuous outflow of profits are often resented...
...Hundreds of similar quotations from the master himself and from his forerunners and disciples can be cited to make up a whole new edition of Judaism Without Embellishment, the latest in the continuing series of anti-Semitic diatribes published in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...It concerns the ribald and often hilarious adventures of an Englishman in Maryland who encounters drunken planters, a quack doctor, all manner of scoundrels and a series of extravagant situations...
...if one wishes to strengthen his distaste for abandoned ideals, they will also serve...
...this is indeed a poor argument, since our minority problems are broadcast to the world, certainly to our own embarrassment...
...It is just as moral to use chemicals as it is to kill a man with a rifle or a sharpened stake...
...For the past year or so, as a journalist, I have attended and covered what seems like an endless series of meetings devoted to themes of arms control and disarmament...
...A wide range of irritant gases and chemicals are available and, in this writer's judgment, should be used to shatter the enemy...
...has not achieved victory in South Vietnam, it is because we have not followed through in a military sense...
...I had planned to write and say so soon after his reviews began appearing in The New Leader back in November of 1962, but it was not until I saw Dr...
...But if one wishes to see movies with intelligence and enthusiasm, I recommend John Simon...
...They maintain that machines can abort such revolutions...
...Since movies are the most popular of the Popular Culture items, they get back at "the people" for disappointing them in the '30s by attacking 99 percent of all movies they see...
...Moreover, the U.S...
...I wonder if Arthur Miller is aware that the words in italics quoted above from his article are almost an exact description of the Jew as portrayed by Karl Marx...
...Perhaps the example of modern capitalism at work in their midst will induce those people who now send their money to New York or Europe, to invest in and help develop their native country...
Vol. 47 • April 1964 • No. 8
